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Aboveboard

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Honest

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Abate

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To decrease in force

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Accolade

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Award; praise

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Acrid

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Bitter, as in taste or smell

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Admonish

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To warn; to criticize

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Affected

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Artificial, as in behavior; theatrical

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Alacrity

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Eagerness; cheerful promptness

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Alleviate

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To lessen; to diminish

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Amalgam

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Mixture

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Anachronistic

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Out of place in time

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Animosity

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Hatred; hostility

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Anomalous

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Unusual; out of place

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Anthology

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Collection of stories or poems

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Aphorism

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A short, wise saying

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Apprentice

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1 a worker who is in training

2 an unskilled worker

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Archaic

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Ancient

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Arsenal

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Collection of weapons

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Aspirant

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A hopeful person

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Astute

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smart

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Augment

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To add to

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Autonomy

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Freedom; independence

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Awry

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Wrong; out of place; off the right course

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Banal

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Ordinary; boring

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Baseness

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1 inferiority; low rank

2 crudeness

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Befuddle

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To confuse

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Belligerent

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Argumentative; aggressive

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Beret

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Round, flat cap

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Bigot

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Prejudiced person

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Blatant

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Obvious; attention-grabbing

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Bombastic

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Loud and self-involved; pompous

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Brevity

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Briefness

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Buffeted

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Hit repeatedly

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Bustle

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To hurry

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Cajole

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To urge through flattery

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Calving

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  1. Giving birth to a calf

2. Losing part of oneself

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Cataclysmic

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Terrible; tragic

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Caucus

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Meeting

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Cavort

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To run around in a playful manner

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Certitude

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Sureness; certainty

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Chary

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Careful; wary

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Chide

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To scold; to disapprove of

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Circumlocution

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A roundabout way of speaking

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Citrus

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A type of fruit; oranges, lemons

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Coagulate

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To clot; to come together

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Coffer

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Box in which valuables are kept

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Cohesive

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  1. Holding together

2. Logical

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Colossal

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Huge

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Commiserate

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To feel or show pity for ; to sympathize

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Compost

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Fertilizer

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condone

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to pardon; to overlook

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conflagration

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large fire

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congregate

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to come together in a crowd

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conspircuous

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obvious; attracting attention

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contiguous

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side by side; touching

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conviction

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strong belief

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corroborate

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to provide evidence to support a view or opinoin

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countermand

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command replacing a previous one

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crusader

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one who fights for a cause

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curator

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director of an institute

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daunt

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to threathen

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debilitate

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to weaken; to cripple

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decoy

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trick; lure; bait

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deference

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extreme respectfulness; submissiveness

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degradation

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dishonor

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denounce

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to criticize; to attack in speech or writing

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deride

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to ridicule

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despondent

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depressed

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detest

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to hate

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dialectic

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method of finding truth through reasoning

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diffidence

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shyness; lack of confidence

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dilation

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process of becoming wider

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disapprobation

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disapproval

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discern

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  1. to recognize

2. to distinguish between things

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disinterested

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neutral; objective

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disposition

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mood; temperament

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dissolution

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the breaking into parts or pieces

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ditty

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simple song

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dogged

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persistent; stubbornly determined

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dotard

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stupid person

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drawl

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to speak slowly

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dulcet

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pleasant-sounding

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eclectic

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from many sources; diverse

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efface

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to erase; to destroy

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effusion

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act of freely expressing feeling or thought

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elocution

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art of speaking well, especially in public

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emancipated

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freed

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embroil

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to get involved in an argument; to entangle

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enamored

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in love with

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engender

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to produce

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entomology

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study of insects

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envenom

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to make bitter; to poison

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equestrian

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related to horseback riding

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esoteric

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understood only by a few people; mystical

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eulogize

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to say great things about

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exacting

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demanding; severe

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exhort

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to urge strongly

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expedite

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to speed up the process; to make more efficient

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extol

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to praise

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exude

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to give off

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facetiousness

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inappropriate humor; wit

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fastidious

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fussy; finicky; difficult to please

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felicity

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happiness

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feudal

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relating to a lord-and-tenant system of land division

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fission

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act of splitting something into parts

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floe

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chunk of floating ice

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foible

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minor flaw or weakness

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fortify

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to make stronger

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frisky

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playful

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furtive

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secretive; sneaky

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gale

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a strong wind

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game

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wild animals

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garish

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gaudy; bright in color

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genesis

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beginning; origin

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germane

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relevant; important

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gingerly

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cautiously; carefully

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glib

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slick (as in speech); superficial

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grapple

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to struggle with

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guffaw

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to laugh heartily

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hackneyed

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cliched; overused; trite

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heed

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to follow

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hidebound

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very stubborn

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idiosyncrasy

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strange habit or preference

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impecunious

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having no money

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implore

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to beg

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impugn

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to call into question; to challenge the truth of a statement

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incendiary

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  1. causing fire

2. stirring up trouble

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incite

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to provoke

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incorrigible

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unable to be improved; beyond hope of correction

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indefatigable

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tireless; energetic

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indoctrination

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the teaching of a certain point of view; brain-washing

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ineptness

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clumsiness; lack of ability

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infirmity

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weakness; disease

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ingrained

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firmly established

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innate

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present since birth; inborn; inherited

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insinuation

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subtle, usually negative suggestion

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intercede

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to break up an argument and settle differences

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intrepid

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brave; fearless

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investiture

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process of investing, as with a rank. office or title

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iridescent

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colorful and shiny; brilliant

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